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good evening everyone, My name is :Sun Xuan （ Next slide, please ）

together with Liu Tingting ，Wu Jing，Duan Xiuqing，Ni Shuo，Yao Xin，and Wang Siqing
would like to present our Case Study On The Walmart

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I am going to talk about Walmart background, Walmart Inc. is an American international chain
enterprise, the world's largest company in terms of turnover。
Walmart Stores Limited was founded in Arkansas in 1962 by Sam Walton ， After more than 50
years of growth, Walmart has become the largest private employer in the United States and the
largest retail chain in the world.
As of January 31, 2022, Walmart has 10,593 stores and clubs in 24 countries, operating under 48
different names, more than 2.2 million employees worldwide and 200 million customers visit
Walmart every week.

Walmart mainly has four business modes: Walmart shopping plaza, Sam's Club, Walmart store
and Walmart community Store.

Walmart's vision statement is “Be the destination for customers to save money, no matter how they
want to shop.” The vision statement echoes the central reasons behind the desire of the company
to position itself as the retail leader.

Walmart Inc.'s corporate mission is “ save money， live better.

To this day, these fundamental beliefs are the basis of all policies and decisions by which we
operate; Respect for the Individual, Service to the Customer, Strive for Excellence, and Act with
Integrity.

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good evening everyone,My name is wujing, then I will continue to focus on SWOT model for
the analysis of Walmart's internal environment

Firtly, I’d like to talk about the Strengths of Walmart

Walmart's strategy of "Everyday Affordability" allows consumers to purchase goods at low

prices. By sourcing goods from overseas countries where labor costs are lower, Walmart's
products are cheaper and more competitive.

Another core competence of Walmart is the international logistics system supported by

advanced information technology. Supported by this system, logistical information on the
transport, sales, and storage of every item in every store nationwide can be clearly seen.
This efficient inventory management enables the company to keep track of sales quickly while
replenishing stock shortages in a timely manner; it does not build up stock or break merchandise,
accelerates capital turnover and greatly reduces capital costs and inventory expenses

In terms of purchasing, it adopts a central purchasing system and tries to implement uniform
purchasing.
The second is to buy out the purchase of goods, and fixed time settlement, reduce the cost of
purchase, to win the trust of suppliers.
Three is to maintain a long-term cooperative relationship with suppliers

Then, the Weaknesses of Walmart

Because Walmart's merchandise covers a wide range of departments such as clothing and food, it
may have a disadvantage in terms of adaptability compared to competitors who are more focused
on one area.
moreover ， The company is global, but currently only has a few countries in its portfolio. As
Walmart sources goods from suppliers around the world, differences in language, culture, values
and customs are a major obstacle to global sourcing.

Besides, let's take a look at the Opportunities for walmart

With the continuous development of science and technology, Walmart can fully grasp information
technology and business rules and systematically use electronic tools. Through e-commerce it can more
easily access business information from suppliers around the world and obtain first-hand information
on the international market.

Adopt acquisitions, mergers or strategic alliances with other international retailers to focus on specific
markets such as Europe or Greater China.

Walmart can gain market development opportunities through new mall locations and mall formats.
Malls closer to the consumer and shops built inside shopping centers can diversify what used to be a
mere hypermarket operation.

Finally we talk about the Threats to walart

Walmart's position as a leader in the retail industry makes it a catch-up target for all its

competitors. His globalization strategy makes it possible to encounter political problems in the

countries where it operates.

The cost of a wide range of consumer goods tends to fall due to the reduction in manufacturing

costs. This has led to price competition and, in some areas, deflation. Unhealthy price

competition is a threat.

For global suppliers, Walmart is firm and does not give in to them. As a result, when Walmart

makes price decisions, there are always complaints from suppliers that prices are too low，This is
potentially dangerous and suppliers may unite in a revolt because of price

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Good evening everyone,my name is liu tingting, let’s continue to discuss the Walmart’s external

environment, The Porter Five Forces model was used for analysis external environment

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First of all, as a large-scale comprehensive supermarket, Walmart's business scope is

nationwide, and it already has a high market share. In addition, at present, the operating conditions

of domestic large supermarkets are relatively stable, and entrants first need to compete with other

brands in the market, and consumers have a higher degree of trust in old brands and higher

barriers to entry, so the threat of new entrants is smaller.

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Then, the Competition in the retail industry is very fierce, domestic local retail enterprises

mushroomed in the 1990s, foreign retail giants have also entered China, France's Carrefour,

Germany's METRO and other world retail giants have entered China to seize the market.

In addition, in the retail industry, there are also innovations in sales models from time to time.

Walmart has adopted a new timely delivery method; Sam's Supermarket has adopted a new

membership system. Walmart not only has to face the competition of traditional offline large

shopping malls, but also needs to face competitors in new business forms, and the industry

competition is fiercer.

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Thirdly, the threats from alternative products, With the development of the information

industry, online shopping, and offline community group buying have become the biggest

threats to large offline retail malls

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Fourthly, Walmart and other large supermarkets have a stable flow of customers, and the

purchase volume is relatively large. For suppliers, being able to cooperate with

supermarkets such as Walmart is a good opportunity for development. As a result,

supplier s have poor bargaining power.

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Lastly,Most consumers in large offline supermarkets are more sensitive to price, and large

supermarkets such as Walmart have won the trust of consumers with price advantages at the

beginning. Moreover, the switching cost of consumers in different procurement platforms is very

low, in addition to facing the pressure of online retail, consumers if they find that other channels

are lower prices, they can easily switch to other channels for consumption, so consumers have

strong bargaining power.

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presentation plz

Good evening everyone,my name is duanxiuqing, I an going to talk about the Strategic
organizational Issues of Wal-Mart

Nowadays ， Walmart faces a number of strategic challenges, including fierce competition,

negative reputation, restrictions on acquisitions & joint ventures, and strong cultural values in
overseas markets.
Considering these aspects, as one of the key strategic issues, it was discovered that there is very
stiff competition from the retailers who have adopted a low-cost strategy. For example, the
organization faces stiff competition in Mexico, North America and Canada. At the same time,
other grocery stores and small retailers have also competed with Walmart while creating niche
markets in different regions successfully. Apart from that, competition in overseas markets is
fierce as well (Rarick et al., 2018).

In addition, as another key strategic issue, it was found that Walmart had to deal with its negative
reputation for lower wages, lower prices and gender exploitation. Since gender discrimination is
rampant throughout the world, this has made it tough for Walmart to expand into specific
countries with strong cultural values and/or traditions (Harrison, 2019). Consequently, this
problem caused a management issue and the expansion program was terminated. Furthermore, the
lower wages have created a bad reputation for the business organization. It provides jobs for
millions of people, but the management of the company strives not to raise wages.

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Here we need to focus on the Specific Issue of Wal-Mart

The management issues are the biggest problems that Walmart faced. the issues of management
also affect the workforce and the organization, which decreases the performance level of the
company. In this particular section, the problematic situations created by the Management Issue
of Walmart are evaluated as follows:

firstly， Communication problem- lack of Management control develops a communication gap

among the employees, which affects both Walmart and the employee’s performance. It also
increases conflict in the organization, which increases the inner competition among the employees
and affects performance (Muda, Indra & Dharsuky, 2021). It also became the reason for damaging
relationships among coworkers.

secondly，Employee turnover- the management issues also cause employee turnover, which is
decreasing the number of employees in an organization like Walmart and forcing the employees to
resign. This affects the production and selling system of Walmart in the market, which reduces
their profitability and competitive advantages (Parker, Krause & Devers, 2019). It increases the
cost of the recruitment and affects the financial section of the company. Walmart faces the
problem of high employee turnover due to the lack of maintenance of management.

lastly， Team conflict- in Walmart the contact between the team members increases for the poor
maintenance of Management. It negatively affects the working environment that involves project
failure, work disruption, reduction of productivity termination and turnover as well as absenteeism
of employees. It also affects the employees mentally, which can affect the team performance and
decreases the rate of profitability of this retail company in the market (Harrison, 2019).

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Then let's talk about options to address the key strategic problem

To effective the decision making and improve the performance of organization, there are two kind
of strategies of control and chaos are developed to solve the internal conflict.
Control is an authority to direct or impose orders. It is managers' task as well as responsibility for
their own ability to model their and the company's the future and for ensuring that the
organizations undergo changes in accordance with their environments so that they can accomplish
their goals.

In contrary, chaos is disorganization or lack of organization in a fixed way. The manager gives the
employees authority to do things a little differently, to measure the situation, resolve the situation
and exercise initiative, and the chaos can be considered as a " defrosting " of the company, and
this time of " chaos " is frequently a prerequisite for renewal of strategy. It is often necessary for
creativity and creative new methods of seeing things and doing things.

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good evening everyone, my name is nishuo, id like to discuss Assess the most attractive option
from the above two option

In this part of assessment,we used qspm analysis to assess the most attractive strategy. As a
result,chaos strategy is the most attractive one.its the most suitable strategy to solve the internal
strategies is to adopt the chaos strategy which is authorized democratic leadership which promotes
the participation the decision making, which can promote innovation and employees are free to
voice up any problems and issues that faced during the workplace and can immediately discuss the
solution. Involvement in the process of decision-making provides the opportunity for individual
employees to have their opinions expressed and their knowledge shared amongst others. This
improves the relationship between managers and employees while also encouraging a strong sense
of teamwork among workers and promoting workplace diversity.
It also means that employees are more likely to come together and combine to present more
innovative and creative ideas because Walmart's team will not be homogenous and it also
promotes employee satisfaction.

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good evening everyone, my name is yaoxin, let’s continue to concentrate to Implementation of
the strategy, In order to implement the strategy, there are some challenges, so companies need to
figure out how to implement strategic decisions effectively and efficiently. Therefore, the entire
organization must adopt a goal-setting approach. The SMART method technique is very useful
here. The manager will be responsible for the goals that are being properly implemented.

firstly，design the most suitable organizational structure and match the function strategy.

secondly,low-cost corporate culture, the concept of thrift and frugality goes deep into every
employee of the company, and keeps abiding by the law and ethics.

The enterprise is a huge system organization, which must be the most lacking in operation, and
there are a lot of improvements. The organizational system is the driving force for continuous
improvement. After the success of many enterprises, because the strategy is not appropriate, or the
new strategy is not formulated in time, the activities of enterprises are at a loss and stagnant.
Therefore, the proper implementation of the correct strategy will bring temporary success, but if
enterprises want to continue to achieve success, they must also understand the inherent
significance of their own strategy.

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hello everyone,my name is wang siqing, Walmart Inc. as an international chain enterprise, also the
world's largest company,it owns four different business modes. In this case study,we analyzed its’
internal and external business environment,that concluded that Walmart faces lots of strategic
issues like management problems, fierce competition, negative reputation and strong cultural
values in overseas markets ， but the key issue is the management problem,for lacking well-
manage will cause negative affects on employees and organization. In order to solve the
management problem, we conducted two kind of strategies ， control and chaos strategy are
developed to solve the internal conflict.
After evaluation analysis, the most attractive strategy to solve the internal issue is adopting the
chaos strategy which is authorized democratic leadership which promotes the participate the
decision making, which can promote innovation and employee are free to voice up any problems
and issues that are faced during the workplace and can immediately discuss the solution.
In order to carry out chaos strategy effectively and efficiently, there are some implementations of
the strategy,including organizing new Organizational structure,Corporate culture and etc.

This is the end of our presentation,thank u very much for being here.